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-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".

Ironically, I'm finding this hard to read without formatting to distinguish using words and mentioning them.

Alcohol does change the surface tension so foaming will be different. Ever seen a security guard shake someone's water bottle to check if it's really water?

The thing that makes beer foam stay there is the protein content. Yeast contributes some, but it's also in the grain. The foam should be less different if you compared something filtered like Heineken and Heineken 0.0.

As well as the arrows, the buttons are just positioned intuitively most of the time. We usually get two perpendicular kerb ramps rather than a diagonal one pointing at the centre of the intersection. The button for the crossing you want is the one closest to you or facing you when you're waiting at the intended ramp.

The button gets mounted on its own post if there's not a traffic light pole in the right place to piggyback off.

It even says "The correct answer was zero"!

Traditional masonry construction has the same results in terms of thermal mass. More so, if it's denser and thicker. With the right shading and ventilation it's useful for both temperature extremes. See vernacular architecture in warmer/more extreme climates, or what Federation Square in Melbourne achieves with concrete:

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2013/09/22...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWYe99ERqM

Considering active heating/cooling as well as passive, the more thermal mass we have in buildings, the better they can act as thermal batteries for surplus renewable energy.

With few exceptions, your cooking oil would have to be smoking profusely before the pan is hot enough to damage silicone. At that point it's not quite hot enough to ruin the Teflon either.

To some extent, the forced downtime is a benefit. Instantly refeullable vehicles enable fatigued driving. It's not even healthy to be sitting for that long as a passenger.

Self-powered evaporative air conditioning is an ancient technology.

Air conditioning as we understand and use it today is a gold-plated band-aid over bad design. It's so entrenched you almost can't get a house built any other way.

> everyone getting the same word on the same day

Not really true as it is, being based on local time. For example, there's only a one hour period each day where someone in New Zealand and someone in Hawaii have the same word.

Fortunatly Wordle clearly signals it with a countdown timer, instead of leaving it up to the reader to figure out what "day" they mean like other daily puzzle sites or people on the internet in general.

If you could avoid getting obese with two shots in the arm and wearing a piece of cloth every time you leave the house for a couple years.

Even if it is "imaginary", there's a positive feedback loop between the belief that supply chain issues exist and changes in buying patterns.

Stop signs here in Australia, like most of the world, are only placed where the visibility actually makes it necessary to come to a stop. They're far more common over in the US. Pick any random intersection, it probably has a stop sign or four.

If all the give way signs on my commute were replaced with stop signs, I'd sure feel like rolling through them.

> The thing with riding that on a bike path was that I had no concerns slowing down amongst pedestrians or on blind corners as it was no effort to get back up to speed. I was less inclined on my road bike due to the effort.

Many bike paths seem to discourage slowing down for junctions by putting them in dips - the opposite of how some train stations are on a hump as "gravitational regenerative braking".

> The recommendations are also getting worse IMO

It seems to me that this happens on a per-user basis as recommendations are overfitted to the recommendations they've already listened to. They overfit so much that if you put a playlist of 1000 tracks you like on shuffle, it will only play the hundred or so tracks the algorithm has decided you "really like", and it will play almost the same selection if you put it on shuffle the next day.

YouTube music (music on YouTube, not YouTube Music) works the same way but less subtly. I had a great few months discovering music through their recommendations, until literally every song I listened to would be followed on autoplay by "Sergio Mendes feat. Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada" or "Funky Destination - The Inside Man (Soopasoul remix)".

Swahili, which they do support, is the national language of Kenya and a lingua franca in the region. They also have Amharic (Ethiopia), Xhosa and Zulu (South Africa).

I agree that supporting a finite set of languages isn't accessible enough, though.

I see it as a feature of Euro English, like writing "XIV century" instead of "19th" or saying "actual" with the meaning of "current". Language change caused by an influx of non-native speakers is not a new thing for English.

Rex Krueger has the most budget-conscious channel I know of (https://www.youtube.com/c/RexKrueger). His "Woodworking for Humans" series starts out with just needing three tools and bootstrapping your way to more.

Personally I started with restoring discarded and thrifted furniture. The initial outlay was just for some glue, varnish, and sandpaper.

South Australia, which generated 60% of its electricity with renewables last year, is installing synchronous condensers to provide some kind of grid stabilisation. (The current conservative government is aiming for net 100% renewables by 2030 and 500% by 2050.)

If you have any of a number of disabilities, that is exactly the case.

Borrowed plural forms are most likely to happen with French, Latin, and Greek loans, and also those from languages that don't change words to make them plural, e.g. Japanese and Maori.

Sometimes it happens with other languages, like the use of Hebrew plural rules for cherub/cherubim, but there's the best approximation.

I thought so too, but I'm not completely sure since they rolled out the personalised "Time Capsule" playlists. Most of the tracks in mine seem more based on my age and location than my listening history. Particularly, many tracks that were in high rotation on a popular national alt/youth radio station when I was 10–15 with no obvious connection to my current listening habits.

I looked it up after writing the last paragraph, and indeed "playlists are [...] based on the country you live in, genres you listen to and your age" (https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9456319/spoti...).

Still I'm not sure if this information comes from tracking or my mistake of signing up to Spotify with my Facebook account.

They copied other social networks' stories feature so accurately, they even included the bit where it's only available on mobile apps first.

I was happy to wait an hour and a bit for delivery when dial-a-pizza and the local Chinese restaurant were the only places around that did it.

The food industry is over-optimising for speed. Especially drive-throughs. Every time I've been through one recently the order has come out almost instantly, but made wrong.

The virus can't "continue from where it left off" if there's nobody left in the country infected by it.

If it turns out there were a few infections left, or one slipped through quarantine for arriving travellers, the health system has enough capacity to perform testing for anyone with even mild symptoms, and comprehensively contact trace.

This has worked for several countries.

We've come a long way from $20,000 per GB (the rate on Telstra prepaid circa 2011, as I discovered when I put my SIM into my first smartphone).

The point is that other jurisdictions get away with using way fewer stop signs than in North America, while having much safer roads.

Nor can I middle-click scroll on desktop.

The battery plant capacity is growing in hand with decentralised battery storage, an interconnector to New South Wales which is building hydro storage capacity, and demand management. Apparently generation and transmission costs are falling nationwide too, but not to the extent that my bills are going down.

There was a unique social quality to public player-run servers at their height. They have not been surpassed as the closest virtual equivalents to bars.

I miss talking to strangers and mild acquaintances more than I thought I would, in that way online and now IRL.